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THE NATURE OF SUCCESS

Have you ever asked yourself what is the success that so many people spendtheir entire lives seeking? Is it the perfect outcome from a certain job thatwas done precisely in every single detail? Or is it just the ambition to bewealthy and famous? Think about it a little. Life will show you that there aresome people who have achieved success in a surprisingly simple way.Success is when father and son have the courage to get in the kitchen andcook for Mom on the eight of March. The soup might be a little salty, thetomato sauce should have been red instead of … turning black, but when shesees the dishes laid out before her, Mom smiles. Because even though her husband and child could not win in the “battle of cooking”, they havesucceeded in giving her the rose of love - a gift that is more beautiful thanany precious gem. Happiness glows in Mom’s eyes.Success can come to the disabled boy who will never walk properly. He isalways wanted to be a football player since he was tiny. After relentlessefforts, he eventually becomes a substitute in a small football team but never plays, not once. That is not a failure though. On the contrary, success hassmiled at the boy who, through great will power and endless striving, hasovercome his difficulties and fulfilled his childhood dream. How many people can achieve that sort of success?After every college entrance examination, how many students are depressedabout their results? Now 27/30 is a really high mark, yet what good is itwhen the student’s first choice requires a 27.5? But that is actually not a

failure; it is a deferred success. Life still welcomes them with second or thirdoptions. The most important thing is that they have tried their best to position themselves. And that is the complete meaning of examinations, thenature of success.When I was a child, I was told a very touching story. It was about a little poor boy who had been asked to write about his mother – the woman whowas raising him. The boy wrote about a woman with gray hair and roughyet gentle and warm hands. He concluded that his grandmother was a mother – the woman that took care of him his whole life. Technically the boy hadn’twritten about his mother so he was told to rewrite the composition. But thatwas truly successful writing, expressing the great love of an orphan who wasdevoted to his grandmother. Is there any success or love more sacred thanthat?Several years ago, the press praised a poor student for scoring top marks inthe college entrance examination. To him, that was a success. But there wasanother success, silent yet great, and it was the triumph of a father who had been a cycle driver for 20 years, the man who had raised the child. Belief and hope shone on the father’s face, and the day his son got into college wasalso the father’s graduation day.I know a woman who graduated with distinction nearly 20 years ago. Withher ability, she could have made a success out of any career. But that studentaccepted sacrificing her opportunities and became a good wife and the greatmom of two little princesses. Now middle aged, she often tells me: “Takingcare of your dad and you two, to me, is a success”. Every time I hear that, Icry. Family is happiness and my mom’s beautiful achievement, and we have

to thank her for that.Human beings always thirst for success, but it is nonsense if they pursuesuccess blindly. You want to be rich, want to be a billionaire like Bill Gates?So fold your money carefully and give it to the old beggar on the street.With that generous act, you can show everybody that you are not onlymaterially wealthy; you are rich in your soul. Then, you are reallysuccessful.You may dream success will come to you like, say, a form of it has come toAbramowitz. After all, he owns a top football team. The truth is that successis not far away. You just need to spend a little more time taking care of your family “football team”. In return, you will receive endless love, somethingthat Abramowitz cannot get from any of his players. Success comes toeveryone that simply and sweetly.You are born; it is a marvelous success for your parents. Your responsibilityis to preserve the complete beauty of that success. Don’t ever think darklythat life is a chain of failure, because like a British professor said: “There isno failure in this life, there is only our perception of the matters.”And to me, success comes when someone reads this small piece of writing.Perhaps it may not get a high mark, but being able to convey my thoughtsonto these pages, to me, is a success.

Teacher’s comment: “Thank you for your lesson; this encouragement comes at the right time for me. You’re greatly successful. I hope you will go on to achievemore”.

* Tôi đang phải đối diện với ngã ba đường như mẹ em ngày xưa, tôi đang phải suy nghĩ là mìnhnên như thế nào thì đúng: tiếp tục học hay trở về nhà quây quần bên gia đình với công việc cóthu nhập không cao lắm, với một người không nổi tiếng (vì ước mơ của tôi là một diễn viên hài

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